Word: andrei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later Pravda's front page announced the arrival of Polish National Committee .delegates for talks with Premier Mikolajczyk. From liberated Poland to Moscow a Russian warplane flew Committee President Boleslaw Berut, Chairman Edward Osubka-Morawski, Vice Chairman Andrei Witos and Defense Chief General Michal Rola-Zymierski. A Red Army band and a guard of honor welcomed them. Chairman Osubka-Morawski made a speech. He too was smiling...
...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
Poles, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, Italians, Belgians, Croats and onetime soldiers of Russia-Turkomans, Cossacks, Tartars, Armenians and Georgians. A unit of Axis Russians under White Russian Lieut. General Andrei A. Vlas-sov was reported swaggering around Vichy France with German uniforms, long sabres and red Cossack fur caps...
General Tolbukhin's armies, which had finished "cleaning" the Crimea last month, were now reported being shifted to the central front.* Also available as a reserve was General Andrei Yeremenko's army, which helped to capture the Crimea. Both these armies were a considerable strengthening factor for the Russians who have had untold millions of casualties...
...Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel last week, the ceremonious bestowal was made by Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko to Secretary Hull, since all the heroes were still away on war business. Ambassador Gromyko, beaming and affable, could not forbear pointing out once more that "my country still carries the main burden of military efforts and sacrifices." He sugared this pill by prophesying that Russia's allies would have a large share in the final victory...